linux.git/kernel/entry, branch v6.18.21 Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git Merge tag 'hyperv-next-signed-20251006' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux 2025-10-07T15:40:15+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2025-10-07T15:40:15+00:00 221533629550e920580ab428f13ffebf54063b95 Pull hyperv updates from Wei Liu: - Unify guest entry code for KVM and MSHV (Sean Christopherson) - Switch Hyper-V MSI domain to use msi_create_parent_irq_domain() (Nam Cao) - Add CONFIG_HYPERV_VMBUS and limit the semantics of CONFIG_HYPERV (Mukesh Rathor) - Add kexec/kdump support on Azure CVMs (Vitaly Kuznetsov) - Deprecate hyperv_fb in favor of Hyper-V DRM driver (Prasanna Kumar T S M) - Miscellaneous enhancements, fixes and cleanups (Abhishek Tiwari, Alok Tiwari, Nuno Das Neves, Wei Liu, Roman Kisel, Michael Kelley) * tag 'hyperv-next-signed-20251006' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux: hyperv: Remove the spurious null directive line MAINTAINERS: Mark hyperv_fb driver Obsolete fbdev/hyperv_fb: deprecate this in favor of Hyper-V DRM driver Drivers: hv: Make CONFIG_HYPERV bool Drivers: hv: Add CONFIG_HYPERV_VMBUS option Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix typos in vmbus_drv.c Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix sysfs output format for ring buffer index Drivers: hv: vmbus: Clean up sscanf format specifier in target_cpu_store() x86/hyperv: Switch to msi_create_parent_irq_domain() mshv: Use common "entry virt" APIs to do work in root before running guest entry: Rename "kvm" entry code assets to "virt" to genericize APIs entry/kvm: KVM: Move KVM details related to signal/-EINTR into KVM proper mshv: Handle NEED_RESCHED_LAZY before transferring to guest x86/hyperv: Add kexec/kdump support on Azure CVMs Drivers: hv: Simplify data structures for VMBus channel close message Drivers: hv: util: Cosmetic changes for hv_utils_transport.c mshv: Add support for a new parent partition configuration clocksource: hyper-v: Skip unnecessary checks for the root partition hyperv: Add missing field to hv_output_map_device_interrupt 
Pull hyperv updates from Wei Liu:

 - Unify guest entry code for KVM and MSHV (Sean Christopherson)

 - Switch Hyper-V MSI domain to use msi_create_parent_irq_domain()
   (Nam Cao)

 - Add CONFIG_HYPERV_VMBUS and limit the semantics of CONFIG_HYPERV
   (Mukesh Rathor)

 - Add kexec/kdump support on Azure CVMs (Vitaly Kuznetsov)

 - Deprecate hyperv_fb in favor of Hyper-V DRM driver (Prasanna
   Kumar T S M)

 - Miscellaneous enhancements, fixes and cleanups (Abhishek Tiwari,
   Alok Tiwari, Nuno Das Neves, Wei Liu, Roman Kisel, Michael Kelley)

* tag 'hyperv-next-signed-20251006' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux:
  hyperv: Remove the spurious null directive line
  MAINTAINERS: Mark hyperv_fb driver Obsolete
  fbdev/hyperv_fb: deprecate this in favor of Hyper-V DRM driver
  Drivers: hv: Make CONFIG_HYPERV bool
  Drivers: hv: Add CONFIG_HYPERV_VMBUS option
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix typos in vmbus_drv.c
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix sysfs output format for ring buffer index
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: Clean up sscanf format specifier in target_cpu_store()
  x86/hyperv: Switch to msi_create_parent_irq_domain()
  mshv: Use common "entry virt" APIs to do work in root before running guest
  entry: Rename "kvm" entry code assets to "virt" to genericize APIs
  entry/kvm: KVM: Move KVM details related to signal/-EINTR into KVM proper
  mshv: Handle NEED_RESCHED_LAZY before transferring to guest
  x86/hyperv: Add kexec/kdump support on Azure CVMs
  Drivers: hv: Simplify data structures for VMBus channel close message
  Drivers: hv: util: Cosmetic changes for hv_utils_transport.c
  mshv: Add support for a new parent partition configuration
  clocksource: hyper-v: Skip unnecessary checks for the root partition
  hyperv: Add missing field to hv_output_map_device_interrupt
entry: Rename "kvm" entry code assets to "virt" to genericize APIs 2025-09-30T22:50:18+00:00 Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com 2025-08-28T00:01:54+00:00 9be7e1e320ff2e7db4b23c8ec5f599bbfac94ede Rename the "kvm" entry code files and Kconfigs to use generic "virt" nomenclature so that the code can be reused by other hypervisors (or rather, their root/dom0 partition drivers), without incorrectly suggesting the code somehow relies on and/or involves KVM. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org> 
Rename the "kvm" entry code files and Kconfigs to use generic "virt"
nomenclature so that the code can be reused by other hypervisors (or
rather, their root/dom0 partition drivers), without incorrectly suggesting
the code somehow relies on and/or involves KVM.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
entry/kvm: KVM: Move KVM details related to signal/-EINTR into KVM proper 2025-09-30T22:50:18+00:00 Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com 2025-08-28T00:01:53+00:00 6d0386ea99875313fdfd074eb74013b6e3b48a76 Move KVM's morphing of pending signals into userspace exits into KVM proper, and drop the @vcpu param from xfer_to_guest_mode_handle_work(). How KVM responds to -EINTR is a detail that really belongs in KVM itself, and invoking kvm_handle_signal_exit() from kernel code creates an inverted module dependency. E.g. attempting to move kvm_handle_signal_exit() into kvm_main.c would generate an linker error when building kvm.ko as a module. Dropping KVM details will also converting the KVM "entry" code into a more generic virtualization framework so that it can be used when running as a Hyper-V root partition. Lastly, eliminating usage of "struct kvm_vcpu" outside of KVM is also nice to have for KVM x86 developers, as keeping the details of kvm_vcpu purely within KVM allows changing the layout of the structure without having to boot into a new kernel, e.g. allows rebuilding and reloading kvm.ko with a modified kvm_vcpu structure as part of debug/development. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org> 
Move KVM's morphing of pending signals into userspace exits into KVM
proper, and drop the @vcpu param from xfer_to_guest_mode_handle_work().
How KVM responds to -EINTR is a detail that really belongs in KVM itself,
and invoking kvm_handle_signal_exit() from kernel code creates an inverted
module dependency.  E.g. attempting to move kvm_handle_signal_exit() into
kvm_main.c would generate an linker error when building kvm.ko as a module.

Dropping KVM details will also converting the KVM "entry" code into a more
generic virtualization framework so that it can be used when running as a
Hyper-V root partition.

Lastly, eliminating usage of "struct kvm_vcpu" outside of KVM is also nice
to have for KVM x86 developers, as keeping the details of kvm_vcpu purely
within KVM allows changing the layout of the structure without having to
boot into a new kernel, e.g. allows rebuilding and reloading kvm.ko with a
modified kvm_vcpu structure as part of debug/development.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
entry: Add arch_irqentry_exit_need_resched() for arm64 2025-09-11T14:55:34+00:00 Jinjie Ruan ruanjinjie@huawei.com 2025-08-15T03:06:30+00:00 3c973c51bfbaf356367afa46b94f9100a7d672f2 Compared to the generic entry code, ARM64 does additional checks when deciding to reschedule on return from interrupt. So introduce arch_irqentry_exit_need_resched() in the need_resched() condition of the generic raw_irqentry_exit_cond_resched(), with a NOP default. This will allow ARM64 to implement the architecture specific version for switching over to the generic entry code. Suggested-by: Ada Couprie Diaz <ada.coupriediaz@arm.com> Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Suggested-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> 
Compared to the generic entry code, ARM64 does additional checks
when deciding to reschedule on return from interrupt. So introduce
arch_irqentry_exit_need_resched() in the need_resched()
condition of the generic raw_irqentry_exit_cond_resched(), with
a NOP default. This will allow ARM64 to implement the architecture
specific version for switching over to the generic entry code.

Suggested-by: Ada Couprie Diaz <ada.coupriediaz@arm.com>
Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Suggested-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm 2025-07-31T00:14:01+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2025-07-31T00:14:01+00:00 63eb28bb1402891b1ad2be02a530f29a9dd7f1cd Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini: "ARM: - Host driver for GICv5, the next generation interrupt controller for arm64, including support for interrupt routing, MSIs, interrupt translation and wired interrupts - Use FEAT_GCIE_LEGACY on GICv5 systems to virtualize GICv3 VMs on GICv5 hardware, leveraging the legacy VGIC interface - Userspace control of the 'nASSGIcap' GICv3 feature, allowing userspace to disable support for SGIs w/o an active state on hardware that previously advertised it unconditionally - Map supporting endpoints with cacheable memory attributes on systems with FEAT_S2FWB and DIC where KVM no longer needs to perform cache maintenance on the address range - Nested support for FEAT_RAS and FEAT_DoubleFault2, allowing the guest hypervisor to inject external aborts into an L2 VM and take traps of masked external aborts to the hypervisor - Convert more system register sanitization to the config-driven implementation - Fixes to the visibility of EL2 registers, namely making VGICv3 system registers accessible through the VGIC device instead of the ONE_REG vCPU ioctls - Various cleanups and minor fixes LoongArch: - Add stat information for in-kernel irqchip - Add tracepoints for CPUCFG and CSR emulation exits - Enhance in-kernel irqchip emulation - Various cleanups RISC-V: - Enable ring-based dirty memory tracking - Improve perf kvm stat to report interrupt events - Delegate illegal instruction trap to VS-mode - MMU improvements related to upcoming nested virtualization s390x - Fixes x86: - Add CONFIG_KVM_IOAPIC for x86 to allow disabling support for I/O APIC, PIC, and PIT emulation at compile time - Share device posted IRQ code between SVM and VMX and harden it against bugs and runtime errors - Use vcpu_idx, not vcpu_id, for GA log tag/metadata, to make lookups O(1) instead of O(n) - For MMIO stale data mitigation, track whether or not a vCPU has access to (host) MMIO based on whether the page tables have MMIO pfns mapped; using VFIO is prone to false negatives - Rework the MSR interception code so that the SVM and VMX APIs are more or less identical - Recalculate all MSR intercepts from scratch on MSR filter changes, instead of maintaining shadow bitmaps - Advertise support for LKGS (Load Kernel GS base), a new instruction that's loosely related to FRED, but is supported and enumerated independently - Fix a user-triggerable WARN that syzkaller found by setting the vCPU in INIT_RECEIVED state (aka wait-for-SIPI), and then putting the vCPU into VMX Root Mode (post-VMXON). Trying to detect every possible path leading to architecturally forbidden states is hard and even risks breaking userspace (if it goes from valid to valid state but passes through invalid states), so just wait until KVM_RUN to detect that the vCPU state isn't allowed - Add KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_APERFMPERF to allow disabling interception of APERF/MPERF reads, so that a "properly" configured VM can access APERF/MPERF. This has many caveats (APERF/MPERF cannot be zeroed on vCPU creation or saved/restored on suspend and resume, or preserved over thread migration let alone VM migration) but can be useful whenever you're interested in letting Linux guests see the effective physical CPU frequency in /proc/cpuinfo - Reject KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ for vm file descriptors if vCPUs have been created, as there's no known use case for changing the default frequency for other VM types and it goes counter to the very reason why the ioctl was added to the vm file descriptor. And also, there would be no way to make it work for confidential VMs with a "secure" TSC, so kill two birds with one stone - Dynamically allocation the shadow MMU's hashed page list, and defer allocating the hashed list until it's actually needed (the TDP MMU doesn't use the list) - Extract many of KVM's helpers for accessing architectural local APIC state to common x86 so that they can be shared by guest-side code for Secure AVIC - Various cleanups and fixes x86 (Intel): - Preserve the host's DEBUGCTL.FREEZE_IN_SMM when running the guest. Failure to honor FREEZE_IN_SMM can leak host state into guests - Explicitly check vmcs12.GUEST_DEBUGCTL on nested VM-Enter to prevent L1 from running L2 with features that KVM doesn't support, e.g. BTF x86 (AMD): - WARN and reject loading kvm-amd.ko instead of panicking the kernel if the nested SVM MSRPM offsets tracker can't handle an MSR (which is pretty much a static condition and therefore should never happen, but still) - Fix a variety of flaws and bugs in the AVIC device posted IRQ code - Inhibit AVIC if a vCPU's ID is too big (relative to what hardware supports) instead of rejecting vCPU creation - Extend enable_ipiv module param support to SVM, by simply leaving IsRunning clear in the vCPU's physical ID table entry - Disable IPI virtualization, via enable_ipiv, if the CPU is affected by erratum #1235, to allow (safely) enabling AVIC on such CPUs - Request GA Log interrupts if and only if the target vCPU is blocking, i.e. only if KVM needs a notification in order to wake the vCPU - Intercept SPEC_CTRL on AMD if the MSR shouldn't exist according to the vCPU's CPUID model - Accept any SNP policy that is accepted by the firmware with respect to SMT and single-socket restrictions. An incompatible policy doesn't put the kernel at risk in any way, so there's no reason for KVM to care - Drop a superfluous WBINVD (on all CPUs!) when destroying a VM and use WBNOINVD instead of WBINVD when possible for SEV cache maintenance - When reclaiming memory from an SEV guest, only do cache flushes on CPUs that have ever run a vCPU for the guest, i.e. don't flush the caches for CPUs that can't possibly have cache lines with dirty, encrypted data Generic: - Rework irqbypass to track/match producers and consumers via an xarray instead of a linked list. Using a linked list leads to O(n^2) insertion times, which is hugely problematic for use cases that create large numbers of VMs. Such use cases typically don't actually use irqbypass, but eliminating the pointless registration is a future problem to solve as it likely requires new uAPI - Track irqbypass's "token" as "struct eventfd_ctx *" instead of a "void *", to avoid making a simple concept unnecessarily difficult to understand - Decouple device posted IRQs from VFIO device assignment, as binding a VM to a VFIO group is not a requirement for enabling device posted IRQs - Clean up and document/comment the irqfd assignment code - Disallow binding multiple irqfds to an eventfd with a priority waiter, i.e. ensure an eventfd is bound to at most one irqfd through the entire host, and add a selftest to verify eventfd:irqfd bindings are globally unique - Add a tracepoint for KVM_SET_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES to help debug issues related to private <=> shared memory conversions - Drop guest_memfd's .getattr() implementation as the VFS layer will call generic_fillattr() if inode_operations.getattr is NULL - Fix issues with dirty ring harvesting where KVM doesn't bound the processing of entries in any way, which allows userspace to keep KVM in a tight loop indefinitely - Kill off kvm_arch_{start,end}_assignment() and x86's associated tracking, now that KVM no longer uses assigned_device_count as a heuristic for either irqbypass usage or MDS mitigation Selftests: - Fix a comment typo - Verify KVM is loaded when getting any KVM module param so that attempting to run a selftest without kvm.ko loaded results in a SKIP message about KVM not being loaded/enabled (versus some random parameter not existing) - Skip tests that hit EACCES when attempting to access a file, and print a "Root required?" help message. In most cases, the test just needs to be run with elevated permissions" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (340 commits) Documentation: KVM: Use unordered list for pre-init VGIC registers RISC-V: KVM: Avoid re-acquiring memslot in kvm_riscv_gstage_map() RISC-V: KVM: Use find_vma_intersection() to search for intersecting VMAs RISC-V: perf/kvm: Add reporting of interrupt events RISC-V: KVM: Enable ring-based dirty memory tracking RISC-V: KVM: Fix inclusion of Smnpm in the guest ISA bitmap RISC-V: KVM: Delegate illegal instruction fault to VS mode RISC-V: KVM: Pass VMID as parameter to kvm_riscv_hfence_xyz() APIs RISC-V: KVM: Factor-out g-stage page table management RISC-V: KVM: Add vmid field to struct kvm_riscv_hfence RISC-V: KVM: Introduce struct kvm_gstage_mapping RISC-V: KVM: Factor-out MMU related declarations into separate headers RISC-V: KVM: Use ncsr_xyz() in kvm_riscv_vcpu_trap_redirect() RISC-V: KVM: Implement kvm_arch_flush_remote_tlbs_range() RISC-V: KVM: Don't flush TLB when PTE is unchanged RISC-V: KVM: Replace KVM_REQ_HFENCE_GVMA_VMID_ALL with KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH RISC-V: KVM: Rename and move kvm_riscv_local_tlb_sanitize() RISC-V: KVM: Drop the return value of kvm_riscv_vcpu_aia_init() RISC-V: KVM: Check kvm_riscv_vcpu_alloc_vector_context() return value KVM: arm64: selftests: Add FEAT_RAS EL2 registers to get-reg-list ... 
Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:

   - Host driver for GICv5, the next generation interrupt controller for
     arm64, including support for interrupt routing, MSIs, interrupt
     translation and wired interrupts

   - Use FEAT_GCIE_LEGACY on GICv5 systems to virtualize GICv3 VMs on
     GICv5 hardware, leveraging the legacy VGIC interface

   - Userspace control of the 'nASSGIcap' GICv3 feature, allowing
     userspace to disable support for SGIs w/o an active state on
     hardware that previously advertised it unconditionally

   - Map supporting endpoints with cacheable memory attributes on
     systems with FEAT_S2FWB and DIC where KVM no longer needs to
     perform cache maintenance on the address range

   - Nested support for FEAT_RAS and FEAT_DoubleFault2, allowing the
     guest hypervisor to inject external aborts into an L2 VM and take
     traps of masked external aborts to the hypervisor

   - Convert more system register sanitization to the config-driven
     implementation

   - Fixes to the visibility of EL2 registers, namely making VGICv3
     system registers accessible through the VGIC device instead of the
     ONE_REG vCPU ioctls

   - Various cleanups and minor fixes

  LoongArch:

   - Add stat information for in-kernel irqchip

   - Add tracepoints for CPUCFG and CSR emulation exits

   - Enhance in-kernel irqchip emulation

   - Various cleanups

  RISC-V:

   - Enable ring-based dirty memory tracking

   - Improve perf kvm stat to report interrupt events

   - Delegate illegal instruction trap to VS-mode

   - MMU improvements related to upcoming nested virtualization

  s390x

   - Fixes

  x86:

   - Add CONFIG_KVM_IOAPIC for x86 to allow disabling support for I/O
     APIC, PIC, and PIT emulation at compile time

   - Share device posted IRQ code between SVM and VMX and harden it
     against bugs and runtime errors

   - Use vcpu_idx, not vcpu_id, for GA log tag/metadata, to make lookups
     O(1) instead of O(n)

   - For MMIO stale data mitigation, track whether or not a vCPU has
     access to (host) MMIO based on whether the page tables have MMIO
     pfns mapped; using VFIO is prone to false negatives

   - Rework the MSR interception code so that the SVM and VMX APIs are
     more or less identical

   - Recalculate all MSR intercepts from scratch on MSR filter changes,
     instead of maintaining shadow bitmaps

   - Advertise support for LKGS (Load Kernel GS base), a new instruction
     that's loosely related to FRED, but is supported and enumerated
     independently

   - Fix a user-triggerable WARN that syzkaller found by setting the
     vCPU in INIT_RECEIVED state (aka wait-for-SIPI), and then putting
     the vCPU into VMX Root Mode (post-VMXON). Trying to detect every
     possible path leading to architecturally forbidden states is hard
     and even risks breaking userspace (if it goes from valid to valid
     state but passes through invalid states), so just wait until
     KVM_RUN to detect that the vCPU state isn't allowed

   - Add KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_APERFMPERF to allow disabling
     interception of APERF/MPERF reads, so that a "properly" configured
     VM can access APERF/MPERF. This has many caveats (APERF/MPERF
     cannot be zeroed on vCPU creation or saved/restored on suspend and
     resume, or preserved over thread migration let alone VM migration)
     but can be useful whenever you're interested in letting Linux
     guests see the effective physical CPU frequency in /proc/cpuinfo

   - Reject KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ for vm file descriptors if vCPUs have been
     created, as there's no known use case for changing the default
     frequency for other VM types and it goes counter to the very reason
     why the ioctl was added to the vm file descriptor. And also, there
     would be no way to make it work for confidential VMs with a
     "secure" TSC, so kill two birds with one stone

   - Dynamically allocation the shadow MMU's hashed page list, and defer
     allocating the hashed list until it's actually needed (the TDP MMU
     doesn't use the list)

   - Extract many of KVM's helpers for accessing architectural local
     APIC state to common x86 so that they can be shared by guest-side
     code for Secure AVIC

   - Various cleanups and fixes

  x86 (Intel):

   - Preserve the host's DEBUGCTL.FREEZE_IN_SMM when running the guest.
     Failure to honor FREEZE_IN_SMM can leak host state into guests

   - Explicitly check vmcs12.GUEST_DEBUGCTL on nested VM-Enter to
     prevent L1 from running L2 with features that KVM doesn't support,
     e.g. BTF

  x86 (AMD):

   - WARN and reject loading kvm-amd.ko instead of panicking the kernel
     if the nested SVM MSRPM offsets tracker can't handle an MSR (which
     is pretty much a static condition and therefore should never
     happen, but still)

   - Fix a variety of flaws and bugs in the AVIC device posted IRQ code

   - Inhibit AVIC if a vCPU's ID is too big (relative to what hardware
     supports) instead of rejecting vCPU creation

   - Extend enable_ipiv module param support to SVM, by simply leaving
     IsRunning clear in the vCPU's physical ID table entry

   - Disable IPI virtualization, via enable_ipiv, if the CPU is affected
     by erratum #1235, to allow (safely) enabling AVIC on such CPUs

   - Request GA Log interrupts if and only if the target vCPU is
     blocking, i.e. only if KVM needs a notification in order to wake
     the vCPU

   - Intercept SPEC_CTRL on AMD if the MSR shouldn't exist according to
     the vCPU's CPUID model

   - Accept any SNP policy that is accepted by the firmware with respect
     to SMT and single-socket restrictions. An incompatible policy
     doesn't put the kernel at risk in any way, so there's no reason for
     KVM to care

   - Drop a superfluous WBINVD (on all CPUs!) when destroying a VM and
     use WBNOINVD instead of WBINVD when possible for SEV cache
     maintenance

   - When reclaiming memory from an SEV guest, only do cache flushes on
     CPUs that have ever run a vCPU for the guest, i.e. don't flush the
     caches for CPUs that can't possibly have cache lines with dirty,
     encrypted data

  Generic:

   - Rework irqbypass to track/match producers and consumers via an
     xarray instead of a linked list. Using a linked list leads to
     O(n^2) insertion times, which is hugely problematic for use cases
     that create large numbers of VMs. Such use cases typically don't
     actually use irqbypass, but eliminating the pointless registration
     is a future problem to solve as it likely requires new uAPI

   - Track irqbypass's "token" as "struct eventfd_ctx *" instead of a
     "void *", to avoid making a simple concept unnecessarily difficult
     to understand

   - Decouple device posted IRQs from VFIO device assignment, as binding
     a VM to a VFIO group is not a requirement for enabling device
     posted IRQs

   - Clean up and document/comment the irqfd assignment code

   - Disallow binding multiple irqfds to an eventfd with a priority
     waiter, i.e. ensure an eventfd is bound to at most one irqfd
     through the entire host, and add a selftest to verify eventfd:irqfd
     bindings are globally unique

   - Add a tracepoint for KVM_SET_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES to help debug issues
     related to private <=> shared memory conversions

   - Drop guest_memfd's .getattr() implementation as the VFS layer will
     call generic_fillattr() if inode_operations.getattr is NULL

   - Fix issues with dirty ring harvesting where KVM doesn't bound the
     processing of entries in any way, which allows userspace to keep
     KVM in a tight loop indefinitely

   - Kill off kvm_arch_{start,end}_assignment() and x86's associated
     tracking, now that KVM no longer uses assigned_device_count as a
     heuristic for either irqbypass usage or MDS mitigation

  Selftests:

   - Fix a comment typo

   - Verify KVM is loaded when getting any KVM module param so that
     attempting to run a selftest without kvm.ko loaded results in a
     SKIP message about KVM not being loaded/enabled (versus some random
     parameter not existing)

   - Skip tests that hit EACCES when attempting to access a file, and
     print a "Root required?" help message. In most cases, the test just
     needs to be run with elevated permissions"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (340 commits)
  Documentation: KVM: Use unordered list for pre-init VGIC registers
  RISC-V: KVM: Avoid re-acquiring memslot in kvm_riscv_gstage_map()
  RISC-V: KVM: Use find_vma_intersection() to search for intersecting VMAs
  RISC-V: perf/kvm: Add reporting of interrupt events
  RISC-V: KVM: Enable ring-based dirty memory tracking
  RISC-V: KVM: Fix inclusion of Smnpm in the guest ISA bitmap
  RISC-V: KVM: Delegate illegal instruction fault to VS mode
  RISC-V: KVM: Pass VMID as parameter to kvm_riscv_hfence_xyz() APIs
  RISC-V: KVM: Factor-out g-stage page table management
  RISC-V: KVM: Add vmid field to struct kvm_riscv_hfence
  RISC-V: KVM: Introduce struct kvm_gstage_mapping
  RISC-V: KVM: Factor-out MMU related declarations into separate headers
  RISC-V: KVM: Use ncsr_xyz() in kvm_riscv_vcpu_trap_redirect()
  RISC-V: KVM: Implement kvm_arch_flush_remote_tlbs_range()
  RISC-V: KVM: Don't flush TLB when PTE is unchanged
  RISC-V: KVM: Replace KVM_REQ_HFENCE_GVMA_VMID_ALL with KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH
  RISC-V: KVM: Rename and move kvm_riscv_local_tlb_sanitize()
  RISC-V: KVM: Drop the return value of kvm_riscv_vcpu_aia_init()
  RISC-V: KVM: Check kvm_riscv_vcpu_alloc_vector_context() return value
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Add FEAT_RAS EL2 registers to get-reg-list
  ...
entry: Add arch_in_rcu_eqs() 2025-07-21T13:01:03+00:00 Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com 2025-07-08T09:27:41+00:00 ee4a2e08c10188f02fe3fb36b6beddc3c2fdb287 All architectures have an interruptible RCU extended quiescent state (EQS) as part of their idle sequences, where interrupts can occur without RCU watching. Entry code must account for this and wake RCU as necessary; the common entry code deals with this in irqentry_enter() by treating any interrupt from an idle thread as potentially having occurred within an EQS and waking RCU for the duration of the interrupt via rcu_irq_enter() .. rcu_irq_exit(). Some architectures may have other interruptible EQSs which require similar treatment. For example, on s390 it is necessary to enable interrupts around guest entry in the middle of a period where core KVM code has entered an EQS. So that architectures can wake RCU in these cases, this patch adds a new arch_in_rcu_eqs() hook to the common entry code which is checked in addition to the existing is_idle_thread() check, with RCU woken if either returns true. A default implementation is provided which always returns false, which suffices for most architectures. As no architectures currently implement arch_in_rcu_eqs(), there should be no functional change as a result of this patch alone. A subsequent patch will add an s390 implementation to fix a latent bug with missing RCU wakeups. [ajd@linux.ibm.com: rebase, fix commit message] Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250708092742.104309-2-ajd@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com> Message-ID: <20250708092742.104309-2-ajd@linux.ibm.com> 
All architectures have an interruptible RCU extended quiescent state
(EQS) as part of their idle sequences, where interrupts can occur
without RCU watching. Entry code must account for this and wake RCU as
necessary; the common entry code deals with this in irqentry_enter() by
treating any interrupt from an idle thread as potentially having
occurred within an EQS and waking RCU for the duration of the interrupt
via rcu_irq_enter() .. rcu_irq_exit().

Some architectures may have other interruptible EQSs which require
similar treatment. For example, on s390 it is necessary to enable
interrupts around guest entry in the middle of a period where core KVM
code has entered an EQS.

So that architectures can wake RCU in these cases, this patch adds a
new arch_in_rcu_eqs() hook to the common entry code which is checked in
addition to the existing is_idle_thread() check, with RCU woken if
either returns true. A default implementation is provided which always
returns false, which suffices for most architectures.

As no architectures currently implement arch_in_rcu_eqs(), there should
be no functional change as a result of this patch alone. A subsequent
patch will add an s390 implementation to fix a latent bug with missing
RCU wakeups.

[ajd@linux.ibm.com: rebase, fix commit message]

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250708092742.104309-2-ajd@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
Message-ID: <20250708092742.104309-2-ajd@linux.ibm.com>
Merge tag 'entry-split-for-arm' into core/entry 2025-06-30T17:54:19+00:00 Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de 2025-06-30T17:54:19+00:00 5173ac2dc8c09361bdb7787c70a25b5b4d61b454 Prerequisite for ARM[64] generic entry conversion Merge it into the entry branch so further changes can be based on it. 
Prerequisite for ARM[64] generic entry conversion

Merge it into the entry branch so further changes can be based on it.
entry: Split generic entry into generic exception and syscall entry 2025-06-30T17:52:55+00:00 Jinjie Ruan ruanjinjie@huawei.com 2025-06-24T18:35:56+00:00 a70e9f647f501e36a6a092888b1ea7386b7c5664 Currently CONFIG_GENERIC_ENTRY enables both the generic exception entry logic and the generic syscall entry logic, which are otherwise loosely coupled. Introduce separate config options for these so that architectures can select the two independently. This will make it easier for architectures to migrate to generic entry code. Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250213130007.1418890-2-ruanjinjie@huawei.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250624-generic-entry-split-v1-1-53d5ef4f94df@linaro.org [Linus Walleij: rebase onto v6.16-rc1] 
Currently CONFIG_GENERIC_ENTRY enables both the generic exception
entry logic and the generic syscall entry logic, which are otherwise
loosely coupled.

Introduce separate config options for these so that architectures can
select the two independently. This will make it easier for
architectures to migrate to generic entry code.

Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250213130007.1418890-2-ruanjinjie@huawei.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250624-generic-entry-split-v1-1-53d5ef4f94df@linaro.org

[Linus Walleij: rebase onto v6.16-rc1]
syscall_user_dispatch: Add PR_SYS_DISPATCH_INCLUSIVE_ON 2025-06-13T16:36:39+00:00 Dmitry Vyukov dvyukov@google.com 2025-05-21T15:04:29+00:00 a2fc422ed75748eef2985454e97847fb22f873c2 There are two possible scenarios for syscall filtering: - having a trusted/allowed range of PCs, and intercepting everything else - or the opposite: a single untrusted/intercepted range and allowing everything else (this is relevant for any kind of sandboxing scenario, or monitoring behavior of a single library) The current API only allows the former use case due to allowed range wrap-around check. Add PR_SYS_DISPATCH_INCLUSIVE_ON that enables the second use case. Add PR_SYS_DISPATCH_EXCLUSIVE_ON alias for PR_SYS_DISPATCH_ON to make it clear how it's different from the new PR_SYS_DISPATCH_INCLUSIVE_ON. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/97947cc8e205ff49675826d7b0327ef2e2c66eea.1747839857.git.dvyukov@google.com 
There are two possible scenarios for syscall filtering:
 - having a trusted/allowed range of PCs, and intercepting everything else
 - or the opposite: a single untrusted/intercepted range and allowing
   everything else (this is relevant for any kind of sandboxing scenario,
   or monitoring behavior of a single library)

The current API only allows the former use case due to allowed
range wrap-around check. Add PR_SYS_DISPATCH_INCLUSIVE_ON that
enables the second use case.

Add PR_SYS_DISPATCH_EXCLUSIVE_ON alias for PR_SYS_DISPATCH_ON
to make it clear how it's different from the new
PR_SYS_DISPATCH_INCLUSIVE_ON.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/97947cc8e205ff49675826d7b0327ef2e2c66eea.1747839857.git.dvyukov@google.com
entry: Inline syscall_exit_to_user_mode() 2025-04-29T06:27:10+00:00 Charlie Jenkins charlie@rivosinc.com 2025-03-20T17:29:24+00:00 e43b8bb56e537bfc8d9076793091e7679020fc9c Similar to commit 221a164035fd ("entry: Move syscall_enter_from_user_mode() to header file"), move syscall_exit_to_user_mode() to the header file as well. Testing was done with the byte-unixbench syscall benchmark (which calls getpid) and QEMU. On riscv I measured a 7.09246% improvement, on x86 a 2.98843% improvement, on loongarch a 6.07954% improvement, and on s390 a 11.1328% improvement. The Intel bot also reported "kernel test robot noticed a 1.9% improvement of stress-ng.seek.ops_per_sec". Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250320-riscv_optimize_entry-v6-4-63e187e26041@rivosinc.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/202502051555.85ae6844-lkp@intel.com/ 
Similar to commit 221a164035fd ("entry: Move syscall_enter_from_user_mode()
to header file"), move syscall_exit_to_user_mode() to the header file as
well.

Testing was done with the byte-unixbench syscall benchmark (which calls
getpid) and QEMU. On riscv I measured a 7.09246% improvement, on x86 a
2.98843% improvement, on loongarch a 6.07954% improvement, and on s390 a
11.1328% improvement.

The Intel bot also reported "kernel test robot noticed a 1.9% improvement
of stress-ng.seek.ops_per_sec".

Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250320-riscv_optimize_entry-v6-4-63e187e26041@rivosinc.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/202502051555.85ae6844-lkp@intel.com/